Legacy of Kain and Soul Reaver fans, here is something special for you today. RainaAudron has just released an AI-enhanced HD remaster mod for the classic Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver game.
This remastered mod attempts to significantly improve the game’s blurry textures. Do note, however, that this mod is for the Dreamcast version of the game. Still, PC gamers can use a Dreamcast emulator in order to play and enjoy this unofficial remaster.
According to RainaAudron, the Dreamcast version is in some ways better than both the PC and the Playstation versions.
“Dreamcast version has higher polygon versions of Raziel Kain and enemies but its textures are more pixelated than PC or even Playstation in some cases. In addition to that, the new Raziel’s and Kain’s faces were not something I was a fan of either. However, it offered 60fps and a dynamic soundtrack, something which the former is missing on Playstation and latter on PC.”
As such, and by using this HD Texture Pack, PC gamers can enjoy this classic game on modern-day systems via emulation. RainaAudron suggests using the Flycast emulator for Dreamcast (which is most likely running the game at full speed). Naturally, you can also run the game in 4K resolutions in order to smooth out the game’s jaggies.
Lastly, RainaAudron released some comparison screenshots that you can find below. These screenshots will give you an idea of the graphical improvements that this AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack brings to the table.
You can download this Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver HD Remaster Mod from here.
Enjoy!
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huh never heard of this flycast emulator, i only knew red dream exists, its good but you have to pay to get higher resolutions than 720p and more save state slots.
So i see in the wiki the emulator can emulate mouse and lightgun as mouse, can you map camera controls to mouse?
Thanks for this type of news! Is always nice to replay classic games with enhanced visuals.
so much nostalgia!
I loved soul reaver and all the legacy of kain series despite their flaws. Superb voice actings and story. I hope some studio revive/reboot/remake this series. So much potential. Soul reaver was my first legacy of kain series that i played and finished.
you know something i had a headache playing this game more than half a year ago. for the first time. on knowing where to go. it’s a classic no doubt and very good game. but i kinda wished it had darn map and objective list. if they ever plan to remake this series that would be among the suggestions.
the only way i was able to figure this game was looking up a video. and even in the comments of the videos there were gamers claiming this would take them months on their own to figure out on what to do.
but all that being said this game is a gem no doubt.
This is what makes this game a masterpiece.
This comment is what makes this game a masterpiece.
No mention about if you can play on a real Dreamcast with an ODE like MODE?
Do you really think that a DC can handle custom textures with 8mb VRAM ?
how on earth do you map mouse? By default left mouse makes you jump, right mouse absorb and middle mouse is menu. So i know its doable but it doesnt register my mouse when i try to map. Wtf? Devs help.
Why in gods name would you want to use K&M for this
why not? Anyway it doesnt matter the matter the emulator is busted i cant map the triggers and every single object is floating around, so forget about it.
Because he is playing on PC and PC is about compatibility and being able to do everything if you desire.
Cool, I desire to use a bulldozer and tennis racket instead of K+M
Sky is the limit technically you can do it !
I had a similar problem regarding RE3:Nemesis on Dolphin Emu where i wanted to map my M1/M2.
I did so by installing AutoHotKey (AHK) and creating a small script to do so.
RButton::2
LButton::1
P::
suspend, Toggle
return
2 = is for example the X button of the controller
1 = is for example the ? button of the controller
P = if you want to Pause the script by toggling it On/Off
So everytime you press your Right Mouse Button its like you are pressing 2 and in 2 you have binded (via the Emulator or the Game’s client) the X button.
I also had the same problem then i was playing RE3:Nemesis not on the Emulator but on the original game client where you can’t bind your mouse buttons on it but only your keyboard’s keys.
i want to use some form of script for games that dont have mouse support like star lancer what program you used exactly?
AutoHotKey (AHK)
Such a shame none of these versions can do proper widescreen, you can Hex edit the exe on the PC version but the textures in the extra FoV area will be corrupted. But anyway this is good news, and the DC version was the definitive edition even before this new texture pack.
EDIT : Found a widescreen hack for the PAL DC version, i don’t own the game for now if there’s someone who can try this hack, just look for it on this page :
http://retro-magic DOT de/Dreamcast_WS_Codes_en
EDIT 2 : FlyCast has automatic widescreen hacks for a lot of games including Soul Reaver
cant map the crouch button either, wtf is this emulator?
I just can’t stand this emulator.
This game was one of the masterpieces of my childhood.
Man I wish they remade the two games, or all of them since I never played the earlier games.
You could just play the earlier ones…
“Or you could just play Pong on Atari…”
No…the games are too old and janky to be enjoyed if you never played them, even the ones I played in my childhood.
Really wish they will make a new one with RT and all. Time to bring back this awesome series!
The Dreamcast version has better models, effects, lighting, draw distance, sound, music and native 60 fps, it’s the definitive version, the PC version is janky AF and mods can barely fix it issues, so better make an exception for this case, and it can be easily emulated
Man the Flycast emulator is so lame. Nonetheless the game with this mod looks fantastic.
Yep, hope the Emulator gets better, for now it’s the only one capable to load custom textures
I loved that game, it was just perfect.
Yeah…i read the title and i was: YES!…then i read that it was for the emulated version :(.